Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: 2010-05-24; LaTeX error parsing fails due to closing brackets in pdflatex output

[David Engster]

Ralf Angeli writes:
> * David Engster (2010-05-25) writes:
>
>> I was able to circumvent this problem by using pdflatex's '-file-line-error'
>> option. I only stumbled upon that by browsing through the News section,
>> where this is noted for version 11.83,
>
> Yes, this should likely be added to the FAQ.
>
>> but it doesn't really say
>> how to activate this. I simply added it to `LaTeX-command-style', but
>> maybe there's a nicer/easier way?
>
> AFAIK you can also enable it globally in the configuration of your TeX
> system.

Ah, yes. After some digging, I found 'file_line_error_style' in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf. Setting this to 't' and then calling
update-texmf did the trick (this is for the tex-common package on
Ubuntu/Debian).

Thanks,
David